Meta community. Discuss about this lemmy instance or lemmy in general.
Hey peeps, it was just brought to my attention that Tesseract has been discontinued. I was one of the few instances which was hosting Tesseract as it had some integrations with Fediseer but unfortunately it seems I need to remove it.
I decided to replace it with Voyager instead. I'm going to leave things up for a day or so to let you update your bookmarks, but soon t.lemmy.dbzer0.com and tesseract.lemmy.dbzer0.com will be removed and v. and voyager. will be added.
I have now upgraded the Divisions by zero to Lemmy 0.19.0. I haven't seen any issues, but of course you will have to re-login.
Please check the new features here
I have also updated Pythörhead to be able to handle the new authentication (as well as the old), so if you're running a bot, make sure to update your Pythörhead dependencies.
Now is also a good time that you can support the running of this server. If you just want to support this instance, please use Ko-fi and you can get a custom emoji here. If you want to support my general development efforts as well (Lemmy, Pythorhead, Fediseer, Tagginator etc) feel free to use my liberapay
I want to make our little corner of the fediverse a bit more unique, so I thought it might be a cool idea to take some classic memes and use the AI Horde to customize them for our respective themes.
First one I started is "You have no power here" which I wanted to post multiple times as a response for someone moralizing about piracy or anarchism etc
I have thus created two versions of it.
:nopower_hacker:
:nopower_pirate:
Please suggest other meme templates you think would fit into this space and I will do myself to create versions to use here.
Our little instance is closing to 6 months of operations and it occurs to me I never really asked for some open feedback from our peeps. So I wanted to start a discussion to see your concerns and comments in general. So tell me, in the context of the divisions by zero, what bothers you, what pleases you, what would you like to see improved.
Feel free to share your thoughts about anything.
The error:
Here's the image I was trying to upload: (uploaded thru imgur)
I was trying to upload the image to c/[email protected]
I found a github issue for this, but the discussion seems to point towards it being on your end or lemmy.world's end.
In the past months, there's a been a issue in various instances where accounts would start uploading blatant CSAM to popular communities. First of all this traumatizes anyone who gets to see it before the admins get to it, including the admins who have to review to take it down. Second of all, even if the content is a link to an external site, lemmy sill caches the thumbnail and stores it in the local pict-rs, causing headaches for the admins who have to somehow clear that out. Finally, both image posts and problematic thumbnails are federated to other lemmy instances, and then likewise stored in their pict-rs, causing such content to be stored in their image storage.
This has caused multiple instances to take radical measures, from defederating liberaly, to stopping image uploads to even shutting down.
Today I'm happy to announce that I've spend multiple days developing a tool you can plug into your instance to stop this at the source: pictrs-safety
Using a new feature from pictr-rs 0.4.3 we can now cause pictrs to call an arbitary endpoint to validate the content of an image before uploading it. pictrs-safety builds that endpoint which uses an asynchronous approach to validate such images.
I had already developed fedi-safety which could be used to regularly go through your image storage and delete all potential CSAM. I have now extended fedi-safety to plug into pict-rs safety and scan images sent by pict-rs.
The end effect is that any images uploaded or federated into your instance will be scanned in advance and if fedi-safety thinks they're potential CSAM, they will not be uploaded to your image storage at all!
This covers three important vectors for abuse:
Now, that said, this tool is AI-driven and thus, not perfect. There will be false positives, especially around lewd images and images which contain children or child-topics (even if not lewd). This is the bargain we have to take to prevent the bigger problem above.
By my napkin calculations, false positive rates are below 1%, but certainly someone's innocent meme will eventually be affected. If this happen, I request to just move on as currently we don't have a way to whitelist specific images. Don't try to resize or modify the images to pass the filter. It won't help you.
fedi-safety can already be used to scan your image storage for CSAM, so you can also protect yourself and your users, even on mastodon or firefish or whatever.
I will try to provide real-time scanning in the future for each software as well and PRs are welcome.
This tool is already active now on divisions by zero. It's usage should be transparent to you, but do let me know if you notice anything wrong.
If you appreciate the priority work that I've put in this tool, please consider supporting this and future development work on liberapay:
All my work is and will always be FOSS and available for all who need it most.
mlmym (AKA old reddit style)
That should give you plenty of option to use whatever look you prefer for this lemmy instance
And remember, if you appreciate the work I'm putting into this, please do consider helping cover the infrastructure costs by buying me a grog
Some of you may have noticed a lot of people freaking out about CSAM and a bunch of communities closing, instances restricting registrations, turning off image uploads or shutting down completely. It's a bit of a chaos.
Fortunately your admin has been fighting this fight for the past year so I have developed some tools to help me out. I repurposed one of them to cover lemmy images
Using this approach, I've now turned on automatic scanning of new uploads.
What this means for you is that occasionally you will upload an image for a post and it will stop working after a bit. C'est la vie. Just upload something else. Changing format or slightly altering the image won't help you.
Also, sometimes you might see missing thumbnails on post from other communities. Those were the cached thumbnails hosted by us. The original images should still work in those cases.
Unfortunately this sort of AI scanning is not perfect and due to the nature of the beast, it will catch more false positives but to an acceptable degree. But I find that this is OK for a small social network site run as a hobby project.
Cool? Cool.
Hey mateys, as I mentioned earlier I have been forced to migrate the Database to a new server as it grew out of the previous location I had it.
This is why we had around 20 minutes downtime just now. Fortunately this is the only downtime I've had to do so things seem to be running smoothly. Likewise we've fortunately been spared from fediverse drama lately, so the personal time requirements are still low.
The new database also gives us plenty of space to grow so things should stay stable for a while until I have to consider more upgrades. Unfortunately it also means that the cost of running this instance have also increased, so I'm increasing the 6-months goal I've set.
Please consider donating a grog or subscribing to the instance costs here: https://ko-fi.com/db0/goal?g=77 and you can get you own personal custom emoji for your troubles :)
View on LW
View on db0
Notice how the comments aren't loading, the pins aren't pinned, and the upvotes aren't equal. There aren't any comments if I try to view them from the db0 instance. Is there a reason that this instance isn't grabbing my communities' info from LW?
A new lemmy version has just been published and this time I'm right on it! It's now live on the Divisions by zero
